Send control to a specific activity

Question

Is there a way to send control to a specific Activity instead of the next or back to the same activity or to a previous activity when a user presses a button "Back to Activity" on his UI
For e.g.
switch (result) {
case "BackToActivity":
action = BACK;
break;
default:
action = ABORT;
break;
Instead of action = BACK can we write action = "Update Status Activity"?
Edited by: user8766631 on Sep 16, 2009 3:25 PM

Answer 1

I agree with Nils.
You could accomplish something similar to this using the Grab activity. The Grab that has a "from all / to all" property set can send an instance from anywhere to anywhere in the process. I'd caution you to go lightly using this and only put a Grab in a supervisor's role. Moving work items can be risky and dangerous (haven't used that phrase in a while) in a production system if the end user doesn't know what they are doing. Don't give all end users the Grab capability or you will have chaos instead of a process.
You could let the end users keep the instance in the same activity (instead of always having the instance move to the next activity) a couple different ways. You can have the presentation have a "Save" button with the "save" action. This will save the user's changes, but keep the instance in the same activity. You can set the action predefined variable to "REPEAT" in a screenflow to keep the instance in the same activity.
Just my opinion, but try to push back on the requirement to send the instance to the previous activity unless there is a need to collaborate. If this is a collaboration design pattern, then use a conditional transition to go back.
Hope this helps,
Dan